News agency says survivor found after 139 hours

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A man has been found alive after being trapped for 139 hours in a collapsed hospital in Sichuan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday.

Xinhua said that the man, Tang Xiong, was rescued from the collapsed hospital in Beichuan in the northern part of the province.

It said Tang "was only slightly bruised" when he was pulled to safety. The government says it expects the final death toll from Monday's massive earthquake to pass 50,000.

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